Continuing our interest in including new contributions to the world of Mozart in each issue, Brian Robins takes us on a pleasant and documented stroll through Salzburg, the city where the composer was born and that Mozart described as "no place for my talent".

It is often forgotten that the discovery of the New World during the fifteenth century also paved the way for musical expansion and evolution, which was enriched and influenced by the miscegenation of new cultures. Jorge L. Rozemblum offers a trip through the history of music from the "Hueheutl" to the American baroque.

Time marches on and Goldberg is about to celebrate its tenth anniversary. Ockeghem was the featured composer of the first issue of GOLDBERG. Fortunately, since then important progress has been made in the recuperation of the music of this Franco-Flemish composer and Fabrice Fitch now presents us with a renewed appraisal of his work.

The immensity of Bach’s output warrants return to it over and over again, analysing it from both specific and general viewpoints. The St. Matthew Passion is undoubtedly one of his greatest works and Uri Golomb unravels the secrets of this sublime music, analysing the fusion between liturgical and dramatic elements in a complex, heterogenous work, rich in musical and expressive details.

This month’s feature interview is with the English scholar and conductor Andrew Parrott, one of the doyens of the early music world in Britain, a very intelligent and well-rounded musician and the author of the book The Essential Bach Choir, based on the theories of Joshua Rifkin, one of the most important and controversial scholarly contributions in recent decades.